Micromegas An Enlightenment Satire of Interstellar Travel, Alien Contact, and Human Folly
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
15.05.2024
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
24
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/0.2 cm
Gewicht
53 g
Übersetzt von
Peter Phalen
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-7998-8
Micromegas is one of Voltaire's most elegant philosophical tales, a brief but dazzling work of speculative satire in which a colossal traveler from Sirius journeys with a Saturnian companion to Earth. Through their astonished encounter with humanity, Voltaire reduces human pride, metaphysical certainty, and sectarian quarrels to comic absurdity. Written in a lucid, ironic, and deceptively light style, the tale belongs to the Enlightenment tradition of conte philosophique, while drawing on Lucianic satire, Swiftian voyage literature, and the new astronomy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Voltaire, the pen name of François-Marie Arouet, was shaped by exile, censorship, courtly life, and a lifelong battle against fanaticism and intellectual complacency. His admiration for Newtonian science and English empiricism, strengthened during his stay in England, informs the cosmic scale and skeptical intelligence of Micromegas. The book reflects his characteristic method: using wit, displacement, and fantasy to expose the provincialism of supposedly serious systems of thought. Readers interested in satire, philosophy, science fiction's early ancestry, or Enlightenment literature will find Micromegas remarkably fresh. Its brevity conceals formidable intellectual range, and its humor remains sharp, humane, and liberating.
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